Have you tried to selfheal on a stamblade yet? Pls stop whining, you have it good.

W the major fortitude change and access to both minor and major breach on snb bar, you can slot orgnum's and get more health recovery even if you abandon some damage from sets. Not sure that it's a complete solution but there is an upside. Not loving the fact that I have to remove another class skill to make room for pierce

You could practically get the same result as before by putting Minor Mending on the DK shield.

Yeah this is going to be a major issue, major mending is the only thing stamdk has to reliably heal itself. Cauterize is of course "okay" but unreliable, costs mag, and of course doesn't always heal you. Stamdk is going to need some extra healing somewhere to keep up with other classes as it's entirely reliant on major mending for self healing. I don't have a magdk but I'd imagine magdk is in the same boat.

olsborg wrote: »

Have you tried to selfheal on a stamblade yet? Pls stop whining, you have it good.

We don't have a button that hides us from enemies and stops dots from doing damage either.

You guys still heal? I just mash R2 & L2 a few dozen times until leap fires and then respawn

Just playing devils advocate here, but keep in mind that defiles have also been reduced in power.

This actually means the net result when you are defiled and have mending will actually be better than live.

ie: if have Major Mending and Major Defile**
Live: Mending +25%, Defile -30%
Healing power % = (1+0.25)*(1-0.3)*100 = 87.5%

PTS: Mending +16%, Defile -16%
Healing power % = (1+0.16)*(1-0.16)*100 = 97.44%

So its almost 10% better if you have mending and are defiled, vs 9% loss (25%-16%) if you have mending but aren't defiled.

**Note: this is without considering the befouled CP. As that is multiplicative with the defile this actually means the difference is even greater with Befoul due to the comparatively larger reduction in defile than mending.

If it turns out that the healing loss while not defiled is too much and causes and issue, then sure, some adjustments may be necessary. I am not saying that StamDk isn't in a bad spot, but this change may not be as bad as it seems for them.


Edit: - Addendum
I realise that Defile is actually specifically the counter to Vitality, not Mending, but even if we consider that as well if you have a source of vitality as well as mending the above becomes:

Live: Vitality +30%, Mending +25%, Defile -30%
Healing power % = (1+0.3)*(1+0.25)*(1-0.3)*100 = 113.75%

PTS: Vitality +16%, Mending +16%, Defile -16%
Healing power % = (1+0.16)*(1+0.16)*(1-0.16)*100 = 113.03%

So still very close if all of these buffs/debuffs are present. (and again will actually be better on PTS if Befoul is considered). Obviously healing power in the case of having Vitality and Mending when not defiled will be significantly less though.